IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTIcs information system®
http://www.imgt.org is one of the most
successful and integrated European project. The workplan of the 5th PCRDT focused on the
genome and proteome (genes, proteins, polymorphisms and structures) of the immunoglobulins
(IG), T cell receptors (TR) and major histocompatibility (MH) of human and other vertebrates.
The IMGT consortium managed to go beyond the expected deliverables and milestones with the
creation of additional new databases (IMGT/3Dstructure-DB, IMGT/GENE-DB) and tools
(IMGT/JunctionAnalysis, IMGT/PhyloGene, IMGT/Allele-Align, IMGT/GeneView,
IMGT/GeneSearch, IMGT/LocusView), in addition to those expected in the workplan. Moreover, the
IMGT Repertoire (the IMGT major Web resource on IG, TR and MH) has been extended to related
proteins of the immune system (RPI), particularly those with V-like, C-like and G-like domains,
opening new insights in the evolution of these proteins.

Progress to date

The IMGT Home page is at Montpellier at
http://www.imgt.org
and provides a common access to a high-quality integrated information system® specializing
in IG, TR, MH and RPI of human and other vertebrate species. It comprises:

The unique common access to IMGT® is the IMGT Home page
http://www.imgt.org.
The IMGT MH sequence databases (human: HLA and nonhuman primates: MH-NHP)
are hosted on the EBI server.
All the other IMGT databases, resources and tools on IG, TR, MH and RPI are localized at
Montpellier on the CINES and IGH servers.